1ec8f24b7SThomas Gleixner# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only 21da177e4SLinus Torvalds# 31da177e4SLinus Torvalds# Network device configuration 41da177e4SLinus Torvalds# 51da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardtmenuconfig NETDEVICES 7ce2d2aedSPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso default y if UML 8e0009820SJan Engelhardt depends on NET 91da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Network device support" 101da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 111da177e4SLinus Torvalds You can say N here if you don't intend to connect your Linux box to 121da177e4SLinus Torvalds any other computer at all. 131da177e4SLinus Torvalds 141da177e4SLinus Torvalds You'll have to say Y if your computer contains a network card that 151da177e4SLinus Torvalds you want to use under Linux. If you are going to run SLIP or PPP over 161da177e4SLinus Torvalds telephone line or null modem cable you need say Y here. Connecting 171da177e4SLinus Torvalds two machines with parallel ports using PLIP needs this, as well as 181da177e4SLinus Torvalds AX.25/KISS for sending Internet traffic over amateur radio links. 191da177e4SLinus Torvalds 201da177e4SLinus Torvalds See also "The Linux Network Administrator's Guide" by Olaf Kirch and 211da177e4SLinus Torvalds Terry Dawson. Available at <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. 221da177e4SLinus Torvalds 231da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 241da177e4SLinus Torvalds 251618cb0cSRandy Dunlap# All the following symbols are dependent on NETDEVICES - do not repeat 261618cb0cSRandy Dunlap# that for each of the symbols. 271618cb0cSRandy Dunlapif NETDEVICES 28cbcd2a4cSRandy Dunlap 29a1606c7dSBen Hutchingsconfig MII 30a1606c7dSBen Hutchings tristate 31a1606c7dSBen Hutchings 3288491d81SJeff Kirsherconfig NET_CORE 3388491d81SJeff Kirsher default y 3488491d81SJeff Kirsher bool "Network core driver support" 35253af423SJamal Hadi Salim ---help--- 3688491d81SJeff Kirsher You can say N here if you do not intend to use any of the 3788491d81SJeff Kirsher networking core drivers (i.e. VLAN, bridging, bonding, etc.) 3888491d81SJeff Kirsher 3988491d81SJeff Kirsherif NET_CORE 4088491d81SJeff Kirsher 4188491d81SJeff Kirsherconfig BONDING 4288491d81SJeff Kirsher tristate "Bonding driver support" 4388491d81SJeff Kirsher depends on INET 4488491d81SJeff Kirsher depends on IPV6 || IPV6=n 4588491d81SJeff Kirsher ---help--- 4688491d81SJeff Kirsher Say 'Y' or 'M' if you wish to be able to 'bond' multiple Ethernet 4788491d81SJeff Kirsher Channels together. This is called 'Etherchannel' by Cisco, 4888491d81SJeff Kirsher 'Trunking' by Sun, 802.3ad by the IEEE, and 'Bonding' in Linux. 4988491d81SJeff Kirsher 5088491d81SJeff Kirsher The driver supports multiple bonding modes to allow for both high 5188491d81SJeff Kirsher performance and high availability operation. 5288491d81SJeff Kirsher 53*a362032eSMauro Carvalho Chehab Refer to <file:Documentation/networking/bonding.rst> for more 5488491d81SJeff Kirsher information. 5588491d81SJeff Kirsher 56253af423SJamal Hadi Salim To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 5788491d81SJeff Kirsher will be called bonding. 58253af423SJamal Hadi Salim 591da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig DUMMY 601da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Dummy net driver support" 611da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 621da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is essentially a bit-bucket device (i.e. traffic you send to 631da177e4SLinus Torvalds this device is consigned into oblivion) with a configurable IP 641da177e4SLinus Torvalds address. It is most commonly used in order to make your currently 651da177e4SLinus Torvalds inactive SLIP address seem like a real address for local programs. 669f5db535SIvan Babrou If you use SLIP or PPP, you might want to say Y here. It won't 679f5db535SIvan Babrou enlarge your kernel. What a deal. Read about it in the Network 681da177e4SLinus Torvalds Administrator's Guide, available from 691da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#guide>. 701da177e4SLinus Torvalds 711da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 729f486619SAlan Cox will be called dummy. 731da177e4SLinus Torvalds 74e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeldconfig WIREGUARD 75e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld tristate "WireGuard secure network tunnel" 76e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld depends on NET && INET 77e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld depends on IPV6 || !IPV6 78e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld select NET_UDP_TUNNEL 79e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld select DST_CACHE 80e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld select CRYPTO 81e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld select CRYPTO_LIB_CURVE25519 82e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld select CRYPTO_LIB_CHACHA20POLY1305 83e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld select CRYPTO_LIB_BLAKE2S 84e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld select CRYPTO_CHACHA20_X86_64 if X86 && 64BIT 85e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld select CRYPTO_POLY1305_X86_64 if X86 && 64BIT 86e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld select CRYPTO_BLAKE2S_X86 if X86 && 64BIT 87e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld select CRYPTO_CURVE25519_X86 if X86 && 64BIT 88d7c68a38SJason A. Donenfeld select ARM_CRYPTO if ARM 89d7c68a38SJason A. Donenfeld select ARM64_CRYPTO if ARM64 90e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld select CRYPTO_CHACHA20_NEON if (ARM || ARM64) && KERNEL_MODE_NEON 91e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld select CRYPTO_POLY1305_NEON if ARM64 && KERNEL_MODE_NEON 92e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld select CRYPTO_POLY1305_ARM if ARM 93e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld select CRYPTO_CURVE25519_NEON if ARM && KERNEL_MODE_NEON 94e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld select CRYPTO_CHACHA_MIPS if CPU_MIPS32_R2 95e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld select CRYPTO_POLY1305_MIPS if CPU_MIPS32 || (CPU_MIPS64 && 64BIT) 96e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld help 97e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld WireGuard is a secure, fast, and easy to use replacement for IPSec 98e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld that uses modern cryptography and clever networking tricks. It's 99e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld designed to be fairly general purpose and abstract enough to fit most 100e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld use cases, while at the same time remaining extremely simple to 101e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld configure. See www.wireguard.com for more info. 102e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld 103e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld It's safe to say Y or M here, as the driver is very lightweight and 104e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld is only in use when an administrator chooses to add an interface. 105e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld 106e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeldconfig WIREGUARD_DEBUG 107e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld bool "Debugging checks and verbose messages" 108e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld depends on WIREGUARD 109e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld help 110e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld This will write log messages for handshake and other events 111e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld that occur for a WireGuard interface. It will also perform some 112e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld extra validation checks and unit tests at various points. This is 113e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld only useful for debugging. 114e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld 115e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld Say N here unless you know what you're doing. 116e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld 11788491d81SJeff Kirsherconfig EQUALIZER 11888491d81SJeff Kirsher tristate "EQL (serial line load balancing) support" 1191da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 12088491d81SJeff Kirsher If you have two serial connections to some other computer (this 12188491d81SJeff Kirsher usually requires two modems and two telephone lines) and you use 12288491d81SJeff Kirsher SLIP (the protocol for sending Internet traffic over telephone 12388491d81SJeff Kirsher lines) or PPP (a better SLIP) on them, you can make them behave like 12488491d81SJeff Kirsher one double speed connection using this driver. Naturally, this has 12588491d81SJeff Kirsher to be supported at the other end as well, either with a similar EQL 12688491d81SJeff Kirsher Linux driver or with a Livingston Portmaster 2e. 1271da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12888491d81SJeff Kirsher Say Y if you want this and read 12988491d81SJeff Kirsher <file:Documentation/networking/eql.txt>. You may also want to read 13088491d81SJeff Kirsher section 6.2 of the NET-3-HOWTO, available from 13188491d81SJeff Kirsher <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 1321da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1331da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 13488491d81SJeff Kirsher will be called eql. If unsure, say N. 13588491d81SJeff Kirsher 13688491d81SJeff Kirsherconfig NET_FC 13788491d81SJeff Kirsher bool "Fibre Channel driver support" 13888491d81SJeff Kirsher depends on SCSI && PCI 13988491d81SJeff Kirsher help 14088491d81SJeff Kirsher Fibre Channel is a high speed serial protocol mainly used to connect 14188491d81SJeff Kirsher large storage devices to the computer; it is compatible with and 14288491d81SJeff Kirsher intended to replace SCSI. 14388491d81SJeff Kirsher 14488491d81SJeff Kirsher If you intend to use Fibre Channel, you need to have a Fibre channel 14588491d81SJeff Kirsher adaptor card in your computer; say Y here and to the driver for your 14688491d81SJeff Kirsher adaptor below. You also should have said Y to "SCSI support" and 14788491d81SJeff Kirsher "SCSI generic support". 14888491d81SJeff Kirsher 14988491d81SJeff Kirsherconfig IFB 15088491d81SJeff Kirsher tristate "Intermediate Functional Block support" 15188491d81SJeff Kirsher depends on NET_CLS_ACT 1522c64605bSPablo Neira Ayuso select NET_REDIRECT 15388491d81SJeff Kirsher ---help--- 15488491d81SJeff Kirsher This is an intermediate driver that allows sharing of 15588491d81SJeff Kirsher resources. 15688491d81SJeff Kirsher To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 15788491d81SJeff Kirsher will be called ifb. If you want to use more than one ifb 15888491d81SJeff Kirsher device at a time, you need to compile this driver as a module. 15988491d81SJeff Kirsher Instead of 'ifb', the devices will then be called 'ifb0', 16088491d81SJeff Kirsher 'ifb1' etc. 16188491d81SJeff Kirsher Look at the iproute2 documentation directory for usage etc 1621da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1633d249d4cSJiri Pirkosource "drivers/net/team/Kconfig" 1643d249d4cSJiri Pirko 165b863ceb7SPatrick McHardyconfig MACVLAN 166bd085b93SKees Cook tristate "MAC-VLAN support" 167b863ceb7SPatrick McHardy ---help--- 168b863ceb7SPatrick McHardy This allows one to create virtual interfaces that map packets to 169b863ceb7SPatrick McHardy or from specific MAC addresses to a particular interface. 170b863ceb7SPatrick McHardy 1713dbf8d56SPatrick McHardy Macvlan devices can be added using the "ip" command from the 1723dbf8d56SPatrick McHardy iproute2 package starting with the iproute2-2.6.23 release: 1733dbf8d56SPatrick McHardy 1743dbf8d56SPatrick McHardy "ip link add link <real dev> [ address MAC ] [ NAME ] type macvlan" 1753dbf8d56SPatrick McHardy 176b863ceb7SPatrick McHardy To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 177b863ceb7SPatrick McHardy will be called macvlan. 178b863ceb7SPatrick McHardy 17920d29d7aSArnd Bergmannconfig MACVTAP 180bd085b93SKees Cook tristate "MAC-VLAN based tap driver" 18120d29d7aSArnd Bergmann depends on MACVLAN 182de11b0e8SBen Hutchings depends on INET 1839a393b5dSSainath Grandhi select TAP 18420d29d7aSArnd Bergmann help 18520d29d7aSArnd Bergmann This adds a specialized tap character device driver that is based 18620d29d7aSArnd Bergmann on the MAC-VLAN network interface, called macvtap. A macvtap device 18720d29d7aSArnd Bergmann can be added in the same way as a macvlan device, using 'type 188c7966b52SJan Luebbe macvtap', and then be accessed through the tap user space interface. 18920d29d7aSArnd Bergmann 19020d29d7aSArnd Bergmann To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 19120d29d7aSArnd Bergmann will be called macvtap. 19220d29d7aSArnd Bergmann 193c675e06aSDaniel Borkmannconfig IPVLAN_L3S 194c675e06aSDaniel Borkmann depends on NETFILTER 195a37d45b6SRandy Dunlap depends on IPVLAN 196c675e06aSDaniel Borkmann def_bool y 197c675e06aSDaniel Borkmann select NET_L3_MASTER_DEV 1982ad7bf36SMahesh Bandewar 1992ad7bf36SMahesh Bandewarconfig IPVLAN 2002ad7bf36SMahesh Bandewar tristate "IP-VLAN support" 201265de6d1SMahesh Bandewar depends on INET 2027f897db3SArnd Bergmann depends on IPV6 || !IPV6 2032ad7bf36SMahesh Bandewar ---help--- 2042ad7bf36SMahesh Bandewar This allows one to create virtual devices off of a main interface 2052ad7bf36SMahesh Bandewar and packets will be delivered based on the dest L3 (IPv6/IPv4 addr) 2062ad7bf36SMahesh Bandewar on packets. All interfaces (including the main interface) share L2 2072ad7bf36SMahesh Bandewar making it transparent to the connected L2 switch. 2082ad7bf36SMahesh Bandewar 2092ad7bf36SMahesh Bandewar Ipvlan devices can be added using the "ip" command from the 210f4c2b7a0SMahesh Bandewar iproute2 package starting with the iproute2-3.19 release: 2112ad7bf36SMahesh Bandewar 2122ad7bf36SMahesh Bandewar "ip link add link <main-dev> [ NAME ] type ipvlan" 2132ad7bf36SMahesh Bandewar 2142ad7bf36SMahesh Bandewar To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 2152ad7bf36SMahesh Bandewar will be called ipvlan. 2162ad7bf36SMahesh Bandewar 217235a9d89SSainath Grandhiconfig IPVTAP 218235a9d89SSainath Grandhi tristate "IP-VLAN based tap driver" 219235a9d89SSainath Grandhi depends on IPVLAN 220235a9d89SSainath Grandhi depends on INET 221235a9d89SSainath Grandhi select TAP 222235a9d89SSainath Grandhi ---help--- 223235a9d89SSainath Grandhi This adds a specialized tap character device driver that is based 224235a9d89SSainath Grandhi on the IP-VLAN network interface, called ipvtap. An ipvtap device 225235a9d89SSainath Grandhi can be added in the same way as a ipvlan device, using 'type 226235a9d89SSainath Grandhi ipvtap', and then be accessed through the tap user space interface. 227235a9d89SSainath Grandhi 228235a9d89SSainath Grandhi To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 229235a9d89SSainath Grandhi will be called ipvtap. 2302ad7bf36SMahesh Bandewar 231d342894cSstephen hemmingerconfig VXLAN 232d342894cSstephen hemminger tristate "Virtual eXtensible Local Area Network (VXLAN)" 233c9b20a5eSKees Cook depends on INET 2343ee64f39STom Herbert select NET_UDP_TUNNEL 23597e219b7SEric Dumazet select GRO_CELLS 236d342894cSstephen hemminger ---help--- 237d342894cSstephen hemminger This allows one to create vxlan virtual interfaces that provide 238d342894cSstephen hemminger Layer 2 Networks over Layer 3 Networks. VXLAN is often used 239d342894cSstephen hemminger to tunnel virtual network infrastructure in virtualized environments. 240d342894cSstephen hemminger For more information see: 241d342894cSstephen hemminger http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-mahalingam-dutt-dcops-vxlan-02 242d342894cSstephen hemminger 243d342894cSstephen hemminger To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 244d342894cSstephen hemminger will be called vxlan. 245d342894cSstephen hemminger 2462d07dc79SJohn W. Linvilleconfig GENEVE 247371bd106SPravin B Shelar tristate "Generic Network Virtualization Encapsulation" 248a7603ac1SMatteo Croce depends on INET 249094be092STobias Regnery depends on IPV6 || !IPV6 250a7603ac1SMatteo Croce select NET_UDP_TUNNEL 25197e219b7SEric Dumazet select GRO_CELLS 2522d07dc79SJohn W. Linville ---help--- 2532d07dc79SJohn W. Linville This allows one to create geneve virtual interfaces that provide 2542d07dc79SJohn W. Linville Layer 2 Networks over Layer 3 Networks. GENEVE is often used 2552d07dc79SJohn W. Linville to tunnel virtual network infrastructure in virtualized environments. 2562d07dc79SJohn W. Linville For more information see: 2572d07dc79SJohn W. Linville http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-gross-geneve-02 2582d07dc79SJohn W. Linville 2592d07dc79SJohn W. Linville To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 2602d07dc79SJohn W. Linville will be called geneve. 2612d07dc79SJohn W. Linville 262571912c6SMartin Vargheseconfig BAREUDP 263571912c6SMartin Varghese tristate "Bare UDP Encapsulation" 264571912c6SMartin Varghese depends on INET 265571912c6SMartin Varghese depends on IPV6 || !IPV6 266571912c6SMartin Varghese select NET_UDP_TUNNEL 267571912c6SMartin Varghese select GRO_CELLS 268571912c6SMartin Varghese help 269571912c6SMartin Varghese This adds a bare UDP tunnel module for tunnelling different 270571912c6SMartin Varghese kinds of traffic like MPLS, IP, etc. inside a UDP tunnel. 271571912c6SMartin Varghese 272571912c6SMartin Varghese To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 273571912c6SMartin Varghese will be called bareudp. 274571912c6SMartin Varghese 275459aa660SPablo Neiraconfig GTP 276459aa660SPablo Neira tristate "GPRS Tunneling Protocol datapath (GTP-U)" 277c22da366SMatteo Croce depends on INET 278c22da366SMatteo Croce select NET_UDP_TUNNEL 279459aa660SPablo Neira ---help--- 280459aa660SPablo Neira This allows one to create gtp virtual interfaces that provide 281459aa660SPablo Neira the GPRS Tunneling Protocol datapath (GTP-U). This tunneling protocol 282459aa660SPablo Neira is used to prevent subscribers from accessing mobile carrier core 283459aa660SPablo Neira network infrastructure. This driver requires a userspace software that 284459aa660SPablo Neira implements the signaling protocol (GTP-C) to update its PDP context 285459aa660SPablo Neira base, such as OpenGGSN <http://git.osmocom.org/openggsn/). This 286459aa660SPablo Neira tunneling protocol is implemented according to the GSM TS 09.60 and 287459aa660SPablo Neira 3GPP TS 29.060 standards. 288459aa660SPablo Neira 289459aa660SPablo Neira To compile this drivers as a module, choose M here: the module 290459aa660SPablo Neira wil be called gtp. 291459aa660SPablo Neira 292c09440f7SSabrina Dubrocaconfig MACSEC 293c09440f7SSabrina Dubroca tristate "IEEE 802.1AE MAC-level encryption (MACsec)" 294ab2ed017SArnd Bergmann select CRYPTO 295c09440f7SSabrina Dubroca select CRYPTO_AES 296c09440f7SSabrina Dubroca select CRYPTO_GCM 29797e219b7SEric Dumazet select GRO_CELLS 298c09440f7SSabrina Dubroca ---help--- 299c09440f7SSabrina Dubroca MACsec is an encryption standard for Ethernet. 300c09440f7SSabrina Dubroca 30188491d81SJeff Kirsherconfig NETCONSOLE 30288491d81SJeff Kirsher tristate "Network console logging support" 3031da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 30488491d81SJeff Kirsher If you want to log kernel messages over the network, enable this. 30588491d81SJeff Kirsher See <file:Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt> for details. 3061da177e4SLinus Torvalds 30788491d81SJeff Kirsherconfig NETCONSOLE_DYNAMIC 30888491d81SJeff Kirsher bool "Dynamic reconfiguration of logging targets" 30988491d81SJeff Kirsher depends on NETCONSOLE && SYSFS && CONFIGFS_FS && \ 31088491d81SJeff Kirsher !(NETCONSOLE=y && CONFIGFS_FS=m) 31188491d81SJeff Kirsher help 31288491d81SJeff Kirsher This option enables the ability to dynamically reconfigure target 31388491d81SJeff Kirsher parameters (interface, IP addresses, port numbers, MAC addresses) 31488491d81SJeff Kirsher at runtime through a userspace interface exported using configfs. 31588491d81SJeff Kirsher See <file:Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt> for details. 3161da177e4SLinus Torvalds 31788491d81SJeff Kirsherconfig NETPOLL 31888491d81SJeff Kirsher def_bool NETCONSOLE 31983fe27eaSPranith Kumar select SRCU 32088491d81SJeff Kirsher 32188491d81SJeff Kirsherconfig NET_POLL_CONTROLLER 32288491d81SJeff Kirsher def_bool NETPOLL 32388491d81SJeff Kirsher 324548c237cSJon Masonconfig NTB_NETDEV 325ec110bc7SAllen Hubbe tristate "Virtual Ethernet over NTB Transport" 326ec110bc7SAllen Hubbe depends on NTB_TRANSPORT 327548c237cSJon Mason 32888491d81SJeff Kirsherconfig RIONET 32988491d81SJeff Kirsher tristate "RapidIO Ethernet over messaging driver support" 33088491d81SJeff Kirsher depends on RAPIDIO 33188491d81SJeff Kirsher 33288491d81SJeff Kirsherconfig RIONET_TX_SIZE 33388491d81SJeff Kirsher int "Number of outbound queue entries" 33488491d81SJeff Kirsher depends on RIONET 33588491d81SJeff Kirsher default "128" 33688491d81SJeff Kirsher 33788491d81SJeff Kirsherconfig RIONET_RX_SIZE 33888491d81SJeff Kirsher int "Number of inbound queue entries" 33988491d81SJeff Kirsher depends on RIONET 34088491d81SJeff Kirsher default "128" 3411da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3421da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig TUN 3431da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Universal TUN/TAP device driver support" 344de11b0e8SBen Hutchings depends on INET 3451da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 3461da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 3471da177e4SLinus Torvalds TUN/TAP provides packet reception and transmission for user space 3481da177e4SLinus Torvalds programs. It can be viewed as a simple Point-to-Point or Ethernet 3491da177e4SLinus Torvalds device, which instead of receiving packets from a physical media, 3501da177e4SLinus Torvalds receives them from user space program and instead of sending packets 3511da177e4SLinus Torvalds via physical media writes them to the user space program. 3521da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3531da177e4SLinus Torvalds When a program opens /dev/net/tun, driver creates and registers 3541da177e4SLinus Torvalds corresponding net device tunX or tapX. After a program closed above 3551da177e4SLinus Torvalds devices, driver will automatically delete tunXX or tapXX device and 3561da177e4SLinus Torvalds all routes corresponding to it. 3571da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3581da177e4SLinus Torvalds Please read <file:Documentation/networking/tuntap.txt> for more 3591da177e4SLinus Torvalds information. 3601da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3611da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 3621da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called tun. 3631da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3641da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you don't know what to use this for, you don't need it. 3651da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3669a393b5dSSainath Grandhiconfig TAP 3679a393b5dSSainath Grandhi tristate 3689a393b5dSSainath Grandhi ---help--- 3699a393b5dSSainath Grandhi This option is selected by any driver implementing tap user space 3709a393b5dSSainath Grandhi interface for a virtual interface to re-use core tap functionality. 3719a393b5dSSainath Grandhi 3728b8e658bSGreg Kurzconfig TUN_VNET_CROSS_LE 3738b8e658bSGreg Kurz bool "Support for cross-endian vnet headers on little-endian kernels" 3748b8e658bSGreg Kurz default n 3758b8e658bSGreg Kurz ---help--- 3768b8e658bSGreg Kurz This option allows TUN/TAP and MACVTAP device drivers in a 3778b8e658bSGreg Kurz little-endian kernel to parse vnet headers that come from a 3788b8e658bSGreg Kurz big-endian legacy virtio device. 3798b8e658bSGreg Kurz 3808b8e658bSGreg Kurz Userspace programs can control the feature using the TUNSETVNETBE 3818b8e658bSGreg Kurz and TUNGETVNETBE ioctls. 3828b8e658bSGreg Kurz 3838b8e658bSGreg Kurz Unless you have a little-endian system hosting a big-endian virtual 3848b8e658bSGreg Kurz machine with a legacy virtio NIC, you should say N. 3858b8e658bSGreg Kurz 386e314dbdcSPavel Emelyanovconfig VETH 3876a9a0250SRusty Russell tristate "Virtual ethernet pair device" 388e314dbdcSPavel Emelyanov ---help--- 3896a9a0250SRusty Russell This device is a local ethernet tunnel. Devices are created in pairs. 3906a9a0250SRusty Russell When one end receives the packet it appears on its pair and vice 3916a9a0250SRusty Russell versa. 392e314dbdcSPavel Emelyanov 39388491d81SJeff Kirsherconfig VIRTIO_NET 394bd085b93SKees Cook tristate "Virtio network driver" 395bd085b93SKees Cook depends on VIRTIO 396ba5e4426SSridhar Samudrala select NET_FAILOVER 39788491d81SJeff Kirsher ---help--- 39888491d81SJeff Kirsher This is the virtual network driver for virtio. It can be used with 399ecda85e7SJuergen Gross QEMU based VMMs (like KVM or Xen). Say Y or M. 40088491d81SJeff Kirsher 401e4fc408eSDaniel Borkmannconfig NLMON 402e4fc408eSDaniel Borkmann tristate "Virtual netlink monitoring device" 403e4fc408eSDaniel Borkmann ---help--- 404e4fc408eSDaniel Borkmann This option enables a monitoring net device for netlink skbs. The 405e4fc408eSDaniel Borkmann purpose of this is to analyze netlink messages with packet sockets. 406e4fc408eSDaniel Borkmann Thus applications like tcpdump will be able to see local netlink 407e4fc408eSDaniel Borkmann messages if they tap into the netlink device, record pcaps for further 408e4fc408eSDaniel Borkmann diagnostics, etc. This is mostly intended for developers or support 409e4fc408eSDaniel Borkmann to debug netlink issues. If unsure, say N. 410e4fc408eSDaniel Borkmann 411193125dbSDavid Ahernconfig NET_VRF 412193125dbSDavid Ahern tristate "Virtual Routing and Forwarding (Lite)" 41335402e31SDavid Ahern depends on IP_MULTIPLE_TABLES 414ee15ee5dSDavid Ahern depends on NET_L3_MASTER_DEV 41535402e31SDavid Ahern depends on IPV6 || IPV6=n 41635402e31SDavid Ahern depends on IPV6_MULTIPLE_TABLES || IPV6=n 417193125dbSDavid Ahern ---help--- 418193125dbSDavid Ahern This option enables the support for mapping interfaces into VRF's. The 419193125dbSDavid Ahern support enables VRF devices. 420193125dbSDavid Ahern 4210b2e6644SGerard Garciaconfig VSOCKMON 4220b2e6644SGerard Garcia tristate "Virtual vsock monitoring device" 4230b2e6644SGerard Garcia depends on VHOST_VSOCK 4240b2e6644SGerard Garcia ---help--- 4250b2e6644SGerard Garcia This option enables a monitoring net device for vsock sockets. It is 4260b2e6644SGerard Garcia mostly intended for developers or support to debug vsock issues. If 4270b2e6644SGerard Garcia unsure, say N. 4280b2e6644SGerard Garcia 42988491d81SJeff Kirsherendif # NET_CORE 43088491d81SJeff Kirsher 43188491d81SJeff Kirsherconfig SUNGEM_PHY 43288491d81SJeff Kirsher tristate 43388491d81SJeff Kirsher 43488491d81SJeff Kirshersource "drivers/net/arcnet/Kconfig" 43588491d81SJeff Kirsher 43688491d81SJeff Kirshersource "drivers/atm/Kconfig" 43788491d81SJeff Kirsher 43888491d81SJeff Kirshersource "drivers/net/caif/Kconfig" 43988491d81SJeff Kirsher 4403b158859SBen Hutchingssource "drivers/net/dsa/Kconfig" 4413b158859SBen Hutchings 44288491d81SJeff Kirshersource "drivers/net/ethernet/Kconfig" 44388491d81SJeff Kirsher 44488491d81SJeff Kirshersource "drivers/net/fddi/Kconfig" 44588491d81SJeff Kirsher 446fecc7351SPaul Bollesource "drivers/net/hippi/Kconfig" 447fecc7351SPaul Bolle 44808120d23SAlex Eldersource "drivers/net/ipa/Kconfig" 44908120d23SAlex Elder 4501da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NET_SB1000 4511da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "General Instruments Surfboard 1000" 452cbcd2a4cSRandy Dunlap depends on PNP 4531da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 4541da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is a driver for the General Instrument (also known as 4551da177e4SLinus Torvalds NextLevel) SURFboard 1000 internal 4561da177e4SLinus Torvalds cable modem. This is an ISA card which is used by a number of cable 4571da177e4SLinus Torvalds TV companies to provide cable modem access. It's a one-way 4581da177e4SLinus Torvalds downstream-only cable modem, meaning that your upstream net link is 4591da177e4SLinus Torvalds provided by your regular phone modem. 4601da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4611da177e4SLinus Torvalds At present this driver only compiles as a module, so say M here if 4621da177e4SLinus Torvalds you have this card. The module will be called sb1000. Then read 463b255e500SJakub Kicinski <file:Documentation/networking/device_drivers/sb1000.txt> for 464b255e500SJakub Kicinski information on how to use this module, as it needs special ppp 465b255e500SJakub Kicinski scripts for establishing a connection. Further documentation 466b255e500SJakub Kicinski and the necessary scripts can be found at: 4671da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4681da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.jacksonville.net/~fventuri/> 4691da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://home.adelphia.net/~siglercm/sb1000.html> 4701da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://linuxpower.cx/~cable/> 4711da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4721da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you don't have this card, of course say N. 4731da177e4SLinus Torvalds 47400db8189SAndy Flemingsource "drivers/net/phy/Kconfig" 47500db8189SAndy Fleming 47618e635f4SJeff Kirshersource "drivers/net/plip/Kconfig" 47718e635f4SJeff Kirsher 47888491d81SJeff Kirshersource "drivers/net/ppp/Kconfig" 47988491d81SJeff Kirsher 480b5451d78SJeff Kirshersource "drivers/net/slip/Kconfig" 481b5451d78SJeff Kirsher 48288491d81SJeff Kirshersource "drivers/s390/net/Kconfig" 48388491d81SJeff Kirsher 48488491d81SJeff Kirshersource "drivers/net/usb/Kconfig" 48588491d81SJeff Kirsher 4861da177e4SLinus Torvaldssource "drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig" 4871da177e4SLinus Torvalds 488143ee2d5SInaky Perez-Gonzalezsource "drivers/net/wimax/Kconfig" 489143ee2d5SInaky Perez-Gonzalez 4901da177e4SLinus Torvaldssource "drivers/net/wan/Kconfig" 4911da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4920739d643Salex.bluesman.smirnov@gmail.comsource "drivers/net/ieee802154/Kconfig" 4930739d643Salex.bluesman.smirnov@gmail.com 4940d160211SJeremy Fitzhardingeconfig XEN_NETDEV_FRONTEND 4950d160211SJeremy Fitzhardinge tristate "Xen network device frontend driver" 4960d160211SJeremy Fitzhardinge depends on XEN 4977003087cSJeremy Fitzhardinge select XEN_XENBUS_FRONTEND 4980d160211SJeremy Fitzhardinge default y 4990d160211SJeremy Fitzhardinge help 500f942dc25SIan Campbell This driver provides support for Xen paravirtual network 501f942dc25SIan Campbell devices exported by a Xen network driver domain (often 502f942dc25SIan Campbell domain 0). 503f942dc25SIan Campbell 504f942dc25SIan Campbell The corresponding Linux backend driver is enabled by the 505f942dc25SIan Campbell CONFIG_XEN_NETDEV_BACKEND option. 506f942dc25SIan Campbell 507f942dc25SIan Campbell If you are compiling a kernel for use as Xen guest, you 508f942dc25SIan Campbell should say Y here. To compile this driver as a module, chose 509f942dc25SIan Campbell M here: the module will be called xen-netfront. 510f942dc25SIan Campbell 511f942dc25SIan Campbellconfig XEN_NETDEV_BACKEND 512f942dc25SIan Campbell tristate "Xen backend network device" 513f942dc25SIan Campbell depends on XEN_BACKEND 514f942dc25SIan Campbell help 515f942dc25SIan Campbell This driver allows the kernel to act as a Xen network driver 516f942dc25SIan Campbell domain which exports paravirtual network devices to other 517f942dc25SIan Campbell Xen domains. These devices can be accessed by any operating 518f942dc25SIan Campbell system that implements a compatible front end. 519f942dc25SIan Campbell 520f942dc25SIan Campbell The corresponding Linux frontend driver is enabled by the 521f942dc25SIan Campbell CONFIG_XEN_NETDEV_FRONTEND configuration option. 522f942dc25SIan Campbell 523f942dc25SIan Campbell The backend driver presents a standard network device 524f942dc25SIan Campbell endpoint for each paravirtual network device to the driver 525f942dc25SIan Campbell domain network stack. These can then be bridged or routed 526f942dc25SIan Campbell etc in order to provide full network connectivity. 527f942dc25SIan Campbell 528f942dc25SIan Campbell If you are compiling a kernel to run in a Xen network driver 529f942dc25SIan Campbell domain (often this is domain 0) you should say Y here. To 530f942dc25SIan Campbell compile this driver as a module, chose M here: the module 531f942dc25SIan Campbell will be called xen-netback. 5320d160211SJeremy Fitzhardinge 533d1a890faSShreyas Bhatewaraconfig VMXNET3 534d1a890faSShreyas Bhatewara tristate "VMware VMXNET3 ethernet driver" 535115924b6SShreyas Bhatewara depends on PCI && INET 536fbdf0e28SArnd Bergmann depends on !(PAGE_SIZE_64KB || ARM64_64K_PAGES || \ 537fbdf0e28SArnd Bergmann IA64_PAGE_SIZE_64KB || MICROBLAZE_64K_PAGES || \ 538fbdf0e28SArnd Bergmann PARISC_PAGE_SIZE_64KB || PPC_64K_PAGES) 539d1a890faSShreyas Bhatewara help 540d1a890faSShreyas Bhatewara This driver supports VMware's vmxnet3 virtual ethernet NIC. 541d1a890faSShreyas Bhatewara To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 542d1a890faSShreyas Bhatewara module will be called vmxnet3. 543d1a890faSShreyas Bhatewara 544658d439bSTaku Izumiconfig FUJITSU_ES 545658d439bSTaku Izumi tristate "FUJITSU Extended Socket Network Device driver" 546658d439bSTaku Izumi depends on ACPI 547658d439bSTaku Izumi help 548658d439bSTaku Izumi This driver provides support for Extended Socket network device 549658d439bSTaku Izumi on Extended Partitioning of FUJITSU PRIMEQUEST 2000 E2 series. 550658d439bSTaku Izumi 551690ac0d2SMika Westerbergconfig USB4_NET 552690ac0d2SMika Westerberg tristate "Networking over USB4 and Thunderbolt cables" 553690ac0d2SMika Westerberg depends on USB4 && INET 554e69b6c02SAmir Levy help 555690ac0d2SMika Westerberg Select this if you want to create network between two computers 556690ac0d2SMika Westerberg over a USB4 and Thunderbolt cables. The driver supports Apple 557e69b6c02SAmir Levy ThunderboltIP protocol and allows communication with any host 558e69b6c02SAmir Levy supporting the same protocol including Windows and macOS. 559e69b6c02SAmir Levy 560e69b6c02SAmir Levy To compile this driver a module, choose M here. The module will be 561e69b6c02SAmir Levy called thunderbolt-net. 562e69b6c02SAmir Levy 56395fa0405SHaiyang Zhangsource "drivers/net/hyperv/Kconfig" 56495fa0405SHaiyang Zhang 56583c9e13aSJakub Kicinskiconfig NETDEVSIM 56683c9e13aSJakub Kicinski tristate "Simulated networking device" 56783c9e13aSJakub Kicinski depends on DEBUG_FS 5681f399fc7SHongbo Yao depends on INET 56948bb9eb4SIdo Schimmel depends on IPV6 || IPV6=n 570f6b19b35SJiri Pirko select NET_DEVLINK 57183c9e13aSJakub Kicinski help 57283c9e13aSJakub Kicinski This driver is a developer testing tool and software model that can 57383c9e13aSJakub Kicinski be used to test various control path networking APIs, especially 57483c9e13aSJakub Kicinski HW-offload related. 57583c9e13aSJakub Kicinski 57683c9e13aSJakub Kicinski To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 57783c9e13aSJakub Kicinski will be called netdevsim. 57883c9e13aSJakub Kicinski 579cfc80d9aSSridhar Samudralaconfig NET_FAILOVER 580cfc80d9aSSridhar Samudrala tristate "Failover driver" 581cfc80d9aSSridhar Samudrala select FAILOVER 582cfc80d9aSSridhar Samudrala help 583cfc80d9aSSridhar Samudrala This provides an automated failover mechanism via APIs to create 584cfc80d9aSSridhar Samudrala and destroy a failover master netdev and manages a primary and 585cfc80d9aSSridhar Samudrala standby slave netdevs that get registered via the generic failover 586cfc80d9aSSridhar Samudrala infrastructure. This can be used by paravirtual drivers to enable 587cfc80d9aSSridhar Samudrala an alternate low latency datapath. It also enables live migration of 588cfc80d9aSSridhar Samudrala a VM with direct attached VF by failing over to the paravirtual 589cfc80d9aSSridhar Samudrala datapath when the VF is unplugged. 590cfc80d9aSSridhar Samudrala 591d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardtendif # NETDEVICES 592